Hi!
Got my Dragon AU fic of angsting Jason done :)
Congrats!
I think it’s this one? :D
I'm pitching my Dragon AU in Westeros... Aka HotD or A Song of Ice and Fire universe.
In that universe, it is possible to bring back the dead with a certain kind of fire magic, if you've got a powerful enough witch/priest of the god of fire. Also helps if you are willing to offer a human sacrifice in exchange.
But the dead who come back like that are...messed up. Just how messed up will depend on how long it has been since the death.
If you do it ASAP, the person is more or less normal, but with some memory gaps and obsessions. You wait a day or so, what you get back is a wrath filled zombie who's composed of the worst parts of the dead person's character.
And if you have been brought back more than once, the more messed up you get each time.
Thinking how it matches the Lazarus Pits...
That’s an interesting concept! And if you go with Jason being brought back after spending six months dead… that could definitely lead to some complications 👁️
But if you go with Jason being a dragon rider already maybe the bond with his dragon could eventually snap him out of it? 🤔
About NW handling cold better than the other dragons...
My AU is Batfam + A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) fusion, and one of the major threats are White Walkers - eldritch necromancer monsters that bring winter, lives in a land of always snow.
Imagine a dragon has to be sent to scout out the threat, or launch a surprise attack, or maybe rescue someone trapped in White Walker territory...
Bruce declares he will go, so does Jason, and whichever riders they have at this point... But given the cold out there, Nightwing is the only one who can fly and fight well enough to get near the White Walkers.
Dick and NW have to go in alone... The angst, the tension...
I mean— Nightwing’s got some badass fire power. And he’s quick. And in combination with Dick totally feral enough to pull off a devastating sneak attack and burn them all to cinders. 👀
Those White Walkers won’t know what hit em~
@shiny-snek here’s the size comparison you asked for! I had to rescale Nightwing and the little dragon a bit because I realized they didn’t match the pictures and what I had in mind. So, thanks for requesting the comparison! Definitely made me aware of some flaws hehehe 💚💚💚
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Anonymous asked:
I love the idea that Dick and Jason used to think Bruce’s dragon was the largest in all the land, that they used to climb on Bat like a jungle gym.
And then Jason gets Red and Bat can’t help but have Bruce’s fatherly instincts even if Red is bigger than him and tries to treat her like Bruce does Jason, a child that a parent refuses is taller and tries to hug as such.
Awe that’s a sweet scenario. Especially considering that none of the boys started out with their dragon, so Bat was their first introduction to them! And of course Bruce had to be present to ensure Bat wouldn’t get annoyed or eat the boys out of spite, but he needn’t have worried.
Bat could feel Bruce‘s love for the boys from minute 1 and therefore also loved them fiercely ✨
Bat is invariably one of the oldest of the Wayne dragons, so it‘s totally a possibility that he had to wrangle the younger, more unruly dragons who were still testing their boundaries at the time.
Red’s presence is a bit of a wild card, but as soon as Bat realizes she‘s bonded to Jason and will not kill/eat indiscriminately anymore, Bat calms back down considerably ✨🐉
Anonymous asked:
Hear me out, in Dragon Rider AU, what if it wasn't an assassination attempt that killed Jason?
Sure, everyone thinks it is, but not really? Like how in canon his death was covered up as an accident?
Maybe, in this AU, the royal family has figured out one way to avoid falling prey to the inbreeding mess - adopted kids count as heirs too, as long as they are dragon riders.
Dick was part of a troupe of travelling entertainers, the king adopted him when his parents died during a sabotaged performance in court. It caused some raised eyebrows, but all protests settled the moment the dragon egg given to the eight year old hatched within days.
Dick is a Rider, so common blood or not, he counts as the crown prince, no question.
Jason was given an egg too when he was adopted, but it hasn't hatched. Bruce and Dick still treat him as family, and has ordered him treated so, but there are still grumbles. And Jason knows that.
Bruce tries to tell him it doesn't matter, he's still Bruce's kid, Rider or not. Okay, he won't be able to inherit the throne, but in any case, Dick is the eldest, so why would that matter?
Jason doesn't really care about becoming king, but he desperately wants to be a Rider too. So he sets about looking for ways - even suicidally dangerous ways - to hatch the egg.
Maybe at this point the Sheila and Joker equivalents get involved. Maybe Sheila is the sorceress who offers some ritual to hatch the egg, and Joker makes her sabotage it...
In any case, Jason seems to die in the attempt - maybe the botched ritual actually teleports him to wherever Red Hood dragon is.
The family might know the truth, but may hush it up so that Jason won't be mocked for his death, or be accused of bringing it upon himself.
An assassination attempt, that will allow Jason's death to be seen as heroic, have him 'proven' a true prince at least this way...
Connection and reversal of canon where his murder is covered up as an accident...
There‘s so much fun you can have with fantasy dynamics!
And it would certainly add a pretty dramatic layer to the whole thing if we assume that Bruce or Dick might think Jason was so desperate because he wanted to be second in line to the throne. Even though that never even crossed Jason‘s mind 👁️
Just had a glorious idea!
Jason goes missing or something
Red’s inconsolable and can’t find her rider (don’t know how)
Tim will be forced to team up with Red to save Jason I think that’s a wonderful bonding time and stuff!
Ooo especially with Tim still lowkey terrified of Red!
(And Red’s open distaste for Tim 👁️)
Anonymous asked:
What if for the dragon au, The Mad Tyrant(Joker) never named Red? Like to him all she was, was a beast to do his bidding, so when Jason bonded to her and called her Red for the first time he unknowingly named her.
A very good possibility! Or with Joker and his multitude of aliases, it wouldn’t ve far fetched to assume he’d change her name on a whim every time. The only constant would be their shared mind space in which he irrevocably addresses her.
To other people Red is just known as “Red Terror”, “Red Hood”, “Red Dread”, or something similar, to one constant being “Red”.
So when Jason first addresses her, it’s with that name. Because he didn’t pause to ask for her real name before he killed Joker. So he just assumed it to be lost forever.
Red on the other hand finally gets the pleasure of having a real name she’s always unfailingly addressed by. (Along with nicknames like “my Lady”, and “darling” but nobody’s supposed to know about those…)
…. Little snippet of a wip…. Let’s see if this one makes it into a one shot or if it’s stays a Drabble
Imagine, ferally protective Tim with his little dragon because not only are they bond linked but the little one used to be Jason’s his favorite rider so when zeef tries to hurt the little Robin Tim attacks back
Yes!!!!
A doomed fight, of course. Red is a decades old war dragon. The little, barely three years old dragon is hardly strong enough to scratch Red’s scales, but oh does he try.
Both dragon and rider are feeding each other a steady feedback loop of terror-anger-despair, knowing they likely won’t be able to escape the colossal dragon’s wrath but determined to fight back regardless.
And for a moment it even seems to work, because Tim’s dragon is small and much more agile than the red beast hot on their tail, and if they’d been a little faster Tim’s dragon could have thrown Red’s rider from the saddle in a stream of flame.
Alas, Red is more experienced, and what he/she lacks in agility is made up for with brute force, and then the little baby dragon is dangling screaming from Red’s claws as the older dragon tears into one of its wings.
Tim and his little dragon fight so hard, and so valiantly, and the little Dragon keeps scratching and biting at Red but the wounds it leaves are shallow.
And then they’re plummeting 👁️
Anonymous asked:
Now stuck thinking about Dragon Batfam…
Imagine if Baby Dragons are all basically traffic light coloured, called Robins – maybe because of the way they fly or something.
Once they mature and change colour to their adult forms, they are given their individual names in a kind of coming-of-age ceremony.
Ideally this is done together for the dragon and the rider, the child bonding with the dragon from the time it emerges from the egg. But sometimes the eggs hatch late and the dragon is younger than the rider.
Or, more rarely, someone manages to claim an older dragon whose rider died.
Riders and dragons forming a psychic bond so that the rider is part dragon and the dragon part human in their souls and minds. So sometimes Riders – at least when in flight – having their dragons’ names being used synonymously with theirs…
Dick’s Nightwing, Bruce’s Bat…
Jason returns on the monstrous dragon Red Hood that is rumoured to have once belonged to the mad tyrant Rider who vanished mysteriously ages ago… Good reason to suspect the monster dragon is influencing the prince in his rampage against his family…
Plot Twist: Red truly is (or more like was) that tyrant’s dragon! Jason (or someone else) finally managed to kill him, and when he went to take care of the beast he surprise-bonded with the older dragon.
The dragon is aggressive, volatile, but it’s also the most over-protective thing ever. After years of being mistreated by the tyrant, Jason is the best thing that ever happened to Red. The best thing to ever happen to each other, actually.
—> Jason is lowkey adopted by a colossal dragon that would literally burn armies for Jay’s soft nose scratches. And in turn, Jason has better control over Red than the tyrant ever did.
Just—- dragon ride things 🥺💚